Well, things are not going as well as I had hoped. The SA8300HD is better than the SA8000HD I had before, but the interface is still pretty frustrating at times. I have 2, and they are both behaving clunky and slow during playback. The menu, guide, and other interface operations are very fast, but the play, rw, and ff while watching a live or recorded show are frustratingly slow to respond. It can take several tries to get ff or rw started and to return to normal playback.
On top of that annoyance, my local CBS & Fox stations have decided to implement their own censors. On top of what the corporate censors already mute or remove from broadcasts, WRAL/WRAZ now also mute vulgar speech, such as "pissed" or "damn" from CBS & Fox broadcasts. The big problem with this is that the mute for each instance lasts 5 seconds, so one can miss significant dialog as a result.
At least with D*, I can also get the Greensboro CBS station which does not do this extra censorship yet.
Ted